Book List Love! My list of Books Read By Year, 20th Century Edition

Children’s author Melissa Wiley’s blog is one I enjoy. This post is inspired by a post on her blog, which was in turn inspired by a post on yet another blog! Whew! Got all that?? I absolutely love what I call “Competitive Reading” or what we commonly call book lists. “The 100 Best…” or “All the books….” I love it so much that my Good Reads .com account sub-classifies all me books by year read, by audio or print [I don’t have a list for kindle] and by awards each book has won. I have a very geeky dream of gi-normous spreadsheet showing EVERY book I’ve ever read with all it’s sub-classes. Therapy…yes, I need therapy. Anyway, today’s installment of Book List Love, aka, Competitive Reading, is a challenge to identify one book you’ve read for each year of the 20th century! Fun!! I love this kind of thing!

Dates may be a little “off”—I compiled this mostly from bestseller lists and a book doesn’t always make it in the exact year it was published, but its close enough. I could fill in the early years with more Lucy Maud Montgomery, but have tried to avoid too many repeat authors. I hope to “personalize” this more as I have time, moving away from best-sellers to favorite titles.

So? Are you “reader” enough to accept this challenge?? Happily, historical bestseller lists are available at Wikipedia and other places on the web. [Yes, I KNOW! I KNOW!! Wikipedia cannot be cited as a source. It’s FINE for this, ok?]

Feel free to leave a comment with your titles or a link to your own challenge post!